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    On a Dark Road to Nowhere
    On a Dark Road to Nowhere
    On a Dark Road to Nowhere
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    On a Dark Road to Nowhere

    By Marcelle Dube

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    When Naomi's car breaks down on a deserted road in the middle of a Yukon winter night, she's lucky to stumble across Maggie's cabin. Then Maggie shows her what's hiding in the woods around the cabin…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFalcon Ridge Publishing
    Release dateJan 10, 2019
    ISBN9781987937220
    On a Dark Road to Nowhere
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    Marcelle Dube

    Marcelle Dubé writes mystery, science fiction, fantasy, contemporary and—occasionally—romance fiction. She grew up near Montreal and after trying out a number of different provinces (not to mention Belgium) she settled in the Yukon, where people outnumber carnivores, but not by much. Her short stories have appeared in magazines and award-winning anthologies. Her novels include the Mendenhall Mystery series (a number of her short stories are also set in the world of Mendenhall Chief of Police Kate Williams) and The A'lle Chronicles, as well as standalone fantasy and mystery titles. Her work is available in print and in electronic format. To find out more about Marcelle, visit her at www.marcellemdube.com.  

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      On a Dark Road to Nowhere - Marcelle Dube

      ON A DARK ROAD TO NOWHERE

      Marcelle Dubé

      Falcon Ridge Publishing

      On a Dark Road to Nowhere copyright © 2018 by Marcelle Dubé

      Cover image copyright © alenka2194 / Shutterstock

      Cover copyright © 2019 Marcelle Dubé and Falcon Ridge Publishing

      ISBN: 978-1-987937-22-0

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resem­blance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

      www.marcellemdube.com

      marcelle.dube@gmail.com

      ON A DARK ROAD TO NOWHERE

      by Marcelle Dubé

      As near as Maggie could tell in the moonlit winter night, the creature didn’t have ears. Or eyes. It barely had a head.

      It had teeth, though. Lots and lots of teeth.

      Her breath fogged out in front of her, capturing the glow of the moon before dissipating. She pressed her bony cheek against the rough bark of the lodgepole pine, breathing in its astringent cat-pee smell and hugging the tree as if to keep it from escaping. She held the rifle loosely in her free hand, ready.

      She had yet to get more than a glimpse of the creature, in spite of having trailed it through the snowy woods for the last twenty minutes. She’d left her damned bifocals on the kitchen table of the cabin, but she’d seen the thing silhouetted a couple of times against the starry sky as it sailed from tree to tree.

      In full sail, it looked like a square of black tinfoil, six feet by six, with pinpricks of starlight shining through what seemed to be thin, squared-off, membrane-like wings on either side of a thicker, cigar-shaped body. It had appendages at each corner and a tiny knob in between the two upper appendages. That was probably its head. If it had ears, they weren’t visible.

      It had been perched on an aspen tree for the past

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